1 //===- DeadStoreElimination.cpp - Fast Dead Store Elimination -------------===// 2 // 3 // The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure 4 // 5 // This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source 6 // License. See LICENSE.TXT for details. 7 // 8 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// 9 // 10 // This file implements a trivial dead store elimination that only considers 11 // basic-block local redundant stores. 12 // 13 // FIXME: This should eventually be extended to be a post-dominator tree 14 // traversal. Doing so would be pretty trivial. 15 // 16 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// 17 18 #define DEBUG_TYPE "dse" 19 #include "llvm/Transforms/Scalar.h" 20 #include "llvm/Constants.h" 21 #include "llvm/Function.h" 22 #include "llvm/GlobalVariable.h" 23 #include "llvm/Instructions.h" 24 #include "llvm/IntrinsicInst.h" 25 #include "llvm/Pass.h" 26 #include "llvm/Analysis/AliasAnalysis.h" 27 #include "llvm/Analysis/CaptureTracking.h" 28 #include "llvm/Analysis/Dominators.h" 29 #include "llvm/Analysis/MemoryBuiltins.h" 30 #include "llvm/Analysis/MemoryDependenceAnalysis.h" 31 #include "llvm/Analysis/ValueTracking.h" 32 #include "llvm/Target/TargetData.h" 33 #include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/Local.h" 34 #include "llvm/Support/Debug.h" 35 #include "llvm/ADT/SetVector.h" 36 #include "llvm/ADT/Statistic.h" 37 #include "llvm/ADT/STLExtras.h" 38 using namespace llvm; 39 40 STATISTIC(NumFastStores, "Number of stores deleted"); 41 STATISTIC(NumFastOther , "Number of other instrs removed"); 42 43 namespace { 44 struct DSE : public FunctionPass { 45 AliasAnalysis *AA; 46 MemoryDependenceAnalysis *MD; 47 DominatorTree *DT; 48 49 static char ID; // Pass identification, replacement for typeid 50 DSE() : FunctionPass(ID), AA(0), MD(0), DT(0) { 51 initializeDSEPass(*PassRegistry::getPassRegistry()); 52 } 53 54 virtual bool runOnFunction(Function &F) { 55 AA = &getAnalysis<AliasAnalysis>(); 56 MD = &getAnalysis<MemoryDependenceAnalysis>(); 57 DT = &getAnalysis<DominatorTree>(); 58 59 bool Changed = false; 60 for (Function::iterator I = F.begin(), E = F.end(); I != E; ++I) 61 // Only check non-dead blocks. Dead blocks may have strange pointer 62 // cycles that will confuse alias analysis. 63 if (DT->isReachableFromEntry(I)) 64 Changed |= runOnBasicBlock(*I); 65 66 AA = 0; MD = 0; DT = 0; 67 return Changed; 68 } 69 70 bool runOnBasicBlock(BasicBlock &BB); 71 bool HandleFree(CallInst *F); 72 bool handleEndBlock(BasicBlock &BB); 73 void RemoveAccessedObjects(const AliasAnalysis::Location &LoadedLoc, 74 SmallSetVector<Value*, 16> &DeadStackObjects); 75 76 virtual void getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage &AU) const { 77 AU.setPreservesCFG(); 78 AU.addRequired<DominatorTree>(); 79 AU.addRequired<AliasAnalysis>(); 80 AU.addRequired<MemoryDependenceAnalysis>(); 81 AU.addPreserved<AliasAnalysis>(); 82 AU.addPreserved<DominatorTree>(); 83 AU.addPreserved<MemoryDependenceAnalysis>(); 84 } 85 }; 86 } 87 88 char DSE::ID = 0; 89 INITIALIZE_PASS_BEGIN(DSE, "dse", "Dead Store Elimination", false, false) 90 INITIALIZE_PASS_DEPENDENCY(DominatorTree) 91 INITIALIZE_PASS_DEPENDENCY(MemoryDependenceAnalysis) 92 INITIALIZE_AG_DEPENDENCY(AliasAnalysis) 93 INITIALIZE_PASS_END(DSE, "dse", "Dead Store Elimination", false, false) 94 95 FunctionPass *llvm::createDeadStoreEliminationPass() { return new DSE(); } 96 97 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// 98 // Helper functions 99 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// 100 101 /// DeleteDeadInstruction - Delete this instruction. Before we do, go through 102 /// and zero out all the operands of this instruction. If any of them become 103 /// dead, delete them and the computation tree that feeds them. 104 /// 105 /// If ValueSet is non-null, remove any deleted instructions from it as well. 106 /// 107 static void DeleteDeadInstruction(Instruction *I, 108 MemoryDependenceAnalysis &MD, 109 SmallSetVector<Value*, 16> *ValueSet = 0) { 110 SmallVector<Instruction*, 32> NowDeadInsts; 111 112 NowDeadInsts.push_back(I); 113 --NumFastOther; 114 115 // Before we touch this instruction, remove it from memdep! 116 do { 117 Instruction *DeadInst = NowDeadInsts.pop_back_val(); 118 ++NumFastOther; 119 120 // This instruction is dead, zap it, in stages. Start by removing it from 121 // MemDep, which needs to know the operands and needs it to be in the 122 // function. 123 MD.removeInstruction(DeadInst); 124 125 for (unsigned op = 0, e = DeadInst->getNumOperands(); op != e; ++op) { 126 Value *Op = DeadInst->getOperand(op); 127 DeadInst->setOperand(op, 0); 128 129 // If this operand just became dead, add it to the NowDeadInsts list. 130 if (!Op->use_empty()) continue; 131 132 if (Instruction *OpI = dyn_cast<Instruction>(Op)) 133 if (isInstructionTriviallyDead(OpI)) 134 NowDeadInsts.push_back(OpI); 135 } 136 137 DeadInst->eraseFromParent(); 138 139 if (ValueSet) ValueSet->remove(DeadInst); 140 } while (!NowDeadInsts.empty()); 141 } 142 143 144 /// hasMemoryWrite - Does this instruction write some memory? This only returns 145 /// true for things that we can analyze with other helpers below. 146 static bool hasMemoryWrite(Instruction *I) { 147 if (isa<StoreInst>(I)) 148 return true; 149 if (IntrinsicInst *II = dyn_cast<IntrinsicInst>(I)) { 150 switch (II->getIntrinsicID()) { 151 default: 152 return false; 153 case Intrinsic::memset: 154 case Intrinsic::memmove: 155 case Intrinsic::memcpy: 156 case Intrinsic::init_trampoline: 157 case Intrinsic::lifetime_end: 158 return true; 159 } 160 } 161 return false; 162 } 163 164 /// getLocForWrite - Return a Location stored to by the specified instruction. 165 /// If isRemovable returns true, this function and getLocForRead completely 166 /// describe the memory operations for this instruction. 167 static AliasAnalysis::Location 168 getLocForWrite(Instruction *Inst, AliasAnalysis &AA) { 169 if (StoreInst *SI = dyn_cast<StoreInst>(Inst)) 170 return AA.getLocation(SI); 171 172 if (MemIntrinsic *MI = dyn_cast<MemIntrinsic>(Inst)) { 173 // memcpy/memmove/memset. 174 AliasAnalysis::Location Loc = AA.getLocationForDest(MI); 175 // If we don't have target data around, an unknown size in Location means 176 // that we should use the size of the pointee type. This isn't valid for 177 // memset/memcpy, which writes more than an i8. 178 if (Loc.Size == AliasAnalysis::UnknownSize && AA.getTargetData() == 0) 179 return AliasAnalysis::Location(); 180 return Loc; 181 } 182 183 IntrinsicInst *II = dyn_cast<IntrinsicInst>(Inst); 184 if (II == 0) return AliasAnalysis::Location(); 185 186 switch (II->getIntrinsicID()) { 187 default: return AliasAnalysis::Location(); // Unhandled intrinsic. 188 case Intrinsic::init_trampoline: 189 // If we don't have target data around, an unknown size in Location means 190 // that we should use the size of the pointee type. This isn't valid for 191 // init.trampoline, which writes more than an i8. 192 if (AA.getTargetData() == 0) return AliasAnalysis::Location(); 193 194 // FIXME: We don't know the size of the trampoline, so we can't really 195 // handle it here. 196 return AliasAnalysis::Location(II->getArgOperand(0)); 197 case Intrinsic::lifetime_end: { 198 uint64_t Len = cast<ConstantInt>(II->getArgOperand(0))->getZExtValue(); 199 return AliasAnalysis::Location(II->getArgOperand(1), Len); 200 } 201 } 202 } 203 204 /// getLocForRead - Return the location read by the specified "hasMemoryWrite" 205 /// instruction if any. 206 static AliasAnalysis::Location 207 getLocForRead(Instruction *Inst, AliasAnalysis &AA) { 208 assert(hasMemoryWrite(Inst) && "Unknown instruction case"); 209 210 // The only instructions that both read and write are the mem transfer 211 // instructions (memcpy/memmove). 212 if (MemTransferInst *MTI = dyn_cast<MemTransferInst>(Inst)) 213 return AA.getLocationForSource(MTI); 214 return AliasAnalysis::Location(); 215 } 216 217 218 /// isRemovable - If the value of this instruction and the memory it writes to 219 /// is unused, may we delete this instruction? 220 static bool isRemovable(Instruction *I) { 221 // Don't remove volatile/atomic stores. 222 if (StoreInst *SI = dyn_cast<StoreInst>(I)) 223 return SI->isUnordered(); 224 225 IntrinsicInst *II = cast<IntrinsicInst>(I); 226 switch (II->getIntrinsicID()) { 227 default: llvm_unreachable("doesn't pass 'hasMemoryWrite' predicate"); 228 case Intrinsic::lifetime_end: 229 // Never remove dead lifetime_end's, e.g. because it is followed by a 230 // free. 231 return false; 232 case Intrinsic::init_trampoline: 233 // Always safe to remove init_trampoline. 234 return true; 235 236 case Intrinsic::memset: 237 case Intrinsic::memmove: 238 case Intrinsic::memcpy: 239 // Don't remove volatile memory intrinsics. 240 return !cast<MemIntrinsic>(II)->isVolatile(); 241 } 242 } 243 244 245 /// isShortenable - Returns true if this instruction can be safely shortened in 246 /// length. 247 static bool isShortenable(Instruction *I) { 248 // Don't shorten stores for now 249 if (isa<StoreInst>(I)) 250 return false; 251 252 IntrinsicInst *II = cast<IntrinsicInst>(I); 253 switch (II->getIntrinsicID()) { 254 default: return false; 255 case Intrinsic::memset: 256 case Intrinsic::memcpy: 257 // Do shorten memory intrinsics. 258 return true; 259 } 260 } 261 262 /// getStoredPointerOperand - Return the pointer that is being written to. 263 static Value *getStoredPointerOperand(Instruction *I) { 264 if (StoreInst *SI = dyn_cast<StoreInst>(I)) 265 return SI->getPointerOperand(); 266 if (MemIntrinsic *MI = dyn_cast<MemIntrinsic>(I)) 267 return MI->getDest(); 268 269 IntrinsicInst *II = cast<IntrinsicInst>(I); 270 switch (II->getIntrinsicID()) { 271 default: llvm_unreachable("Unexpected intrinsic!"); 272 case Intrinsic::init_trampoline: 273 return II->getArgOperand(0); 274 } 275 } 276 277 static uint64_t getPointerSize(const Value *V, AliasAnalysis &AA) { 278 uint64_t Size; 279 if (getObjectSize(V, Size, AA.getTargetData())) 280 return Size; 281 return AliasAnalysis::UnknownSize; 282 } 283 284 namespace { 285 enum OverwriteResult 286 { 287 OverwriteComplete, 288 OverwriteEnd, 289 OverwriteUnknown 290 }; 291 } 292 293 /// isOverwrite - Return 'OverwriteComplete' if a store to the 'Later' location 294 /// completely overwrites a store to the 'Earlier' location. 295 /// 'OverwriteEnd' if the end of the 'Earlier' location is completely 296 /// overwritten by 'Later', or 'OverwriteUnknown' if nothing can be determined 297 static OverwriteResult isOverwrite(const AliasAnalysis::Location &Later, 298 const AliasAnalysis::Location &Earlier, 299 AliasAnalysis &AA, 300 int64_t &EarlierOff, 301 int64_t &LaterOff) { 302 const Value *P1 = Earlier.Ptr->stripPointerCasts(); 303 const Value *P2 = Later.Ptr->stripPointerCasts(); 304 305 // If the start pointers are the same, we just have to compare sizes to see if 306 // the later store was larger than the earlier store. 307 if (P1 == P2) { 308 // If we don't know the sizes of either access, then we can't do a 309 // comparison. 310 if (Later.Size == AliasAnalysis::UnknownSize || 311 Earlier.Size == AliasAnalysis::UnknownSize) { 312 // If we have no TargetData information around, then the size of the store 313 // is inferrable from the pointee type. If they are the same type, then 314 // we know that the store is safe. 315 if (AA.getTargetData() == 0 && 316 Later.Ptr->getType() == Earlier.Ptr->getType()) 317 return OverwriteComplete; 318 319 return OverwriteUnknown; 320 } 321 322 // Make sure that the Later size is >= the Earlier size. 323 if (Later.Size >= Earlier.Size) 324 return OverwriteComplete; 325 } 326 327 // Otherwise, we have to have size information, and the later store has to be 328 // larger than the earlier one. 329 if (Later.Size == AliasAnalysis::UnknownSize || 330 Earlier.Size == AliasAnalysis::UnknownSize || 331 AA.getTargetData() == 0) 332 return OverwriteUnknown; 333 334 // Check to see if the later store is to the entire object (either a global, 335 // an alloca, or a byval argument). If so, then it clearly overwrites any 336 // other store to the same object. 337 const TargetData &TD = *AA.getTargetData(); 338 339 const Value *UO1 = GetUnderlyingObject(P1, &TD), 340 *UO2 = GetUnderlyingObject(P2, &TD); 341 342 // If we can't resolve the same pointers to the same object, then we can't 343 // analyze them at all. 344 if (UO1 != UO2) 345 return OverwriteUnknown; 346 347 // If the "Later" store is to a recognizable object, get its size. 348 uint64_t ObjectSize = getPointerSize(UO2, AA); 349 if (ObjectSize != AliasAnalysis::UnknownSize) 350 if (ObjectSize == Later.Size && ObjectSize >= Earlier.Size) 351 return OverwriteComplete; 352 353 // Okay, we have stores to two completely different pointers. Try to 354 // decompose the pointer into a "base + constant_offset" form. If the base 355 // pointers are equal, then we can reason about the two stores. 356 EarlierOff = 0; 357 LaterOff = 0; 358 const Value *BP1 = GetPointerBaseWithConstantOffset(P1, EarlierOff, TD); 359 const Value *BP2 = GetPointerBaseWithConstantOffset(P2, LaterOff, TD); 360 361 // If the base pointers still differ, we have two completely different stores. 362 if (BP1 != BP2) 363 return OverwriteUnknown; 364 365 // The later store completely overlaps the earlier store if: 366 // 367 // 1. Both start at the same offset and the later one's size is greater than 368 // or equal to the earlier one's, or 369 // 370 // |--earlier--| 371 // |-- later --| 372 // 373 // 2. The earlier store has an offset greater than the later offset, but which 374 // still lies completely within the later store. 375 // 376 // |--earlier--| 377 // |----- later ------| 378 // 379 // We have to be careful here as *Off is signed while *.Size is unsigned. 380 if (EarlierOff >= LaterOff && 381 Later.Size >= Earlier.Size && 382 uint64_t(EarlierOff - LaterOff) + Earlier.Size <= Later.Size) 383 return OverwriteComplete; 384 385 // The other interesting case is if the later store overwrites the end of 386 // the earlier store 387 // 388 // |--earlier--| 389 // |-- later --| 390 // 391 // In this case we may want to trim the size of earlier to avoid generating 392 // writes to addresses which will definitely be overwritten later 393 if (LaterOff > EarlierOff && 394 LaterOff < int64_t(EarlierOff + Earlier.Size) && 395 int64_t(LaterOff + Later.Size) >= int64_t(EarlierOff + Earlier.Size)) 396 return OverwriteEnd; 397 398 // Otherwise, they don't completely overlap. 399 return OverwriteUnknown; 400 } 401 402 /// isPossibleSelfRead - If 'Inst' might be a self read (i.e. a noop copy of a 403 /// memory region into an identical pointer) then it doesn't actually make its 404 /// input dead in the traditional sense. Consider this case: 405 /// 406 /// memcpy(A <- B) 407 /// memcpy(A <- A) 408 /// 409 /// In this case, the second store to A does not make the first store to A dead. 410 /// The usual situation isn't an explicit A<-A store like this (which can be 411 /// trivially removed) but a case where two pointers may alias. 412 /// 413 /// This function detects when it is unsafe to remove a dependent instruction 414 /// because the DSE inducing instruction may be a self-read. 415 static bool isPossibleSelfRead(Instruction *Inst, 416 const AliasAnalysis::Location &InstStoreLoc, 417 Instruction *DepWrite, AliasAnalysis &AA) { 418 // Self reads can only happen for instructions that read memory. Get the 419 // location read. 420 AliasAnalysis::Location InstReadLoc = getLocForRead(Inst, AA); 421 if (InstReadLoc.Ptr == 0) return false; // Not a reading instruction. 422 423 // If the read and written loc obviously don't alias, it isn't a read. 424 if (AA.isNoAlias(InstReadLoc, InstStoreLoc)) return false; 425 426 // Okay, 'Inst' may copy over itself. However, we can still remove a the 427 // DepWrite instruction if we can prove that it reads from the same location 428 // as Inst. This handles useful cases like: 429 // memcpy(A <- B) 430 // memcpy(A <- B) 431 // Here we don't know if A/B may alias, but we do know that B/B are must 432 // aliases, so removing the first memcpy is safe (assuming it writes <= # 433 // bytes as the second one. 434 AliasAnalysis::Location DepReadLoc = getLocForRead(DepWrite, AA); 435 436 if (DepReadLoc.Ptr && AA.isMustAlias(InstReadLoc.Ptr, DepReadLoc.Ptr)) 437 return false; 438 439 // If DepWrite doesn't read memory or if we can't prove it is a must alias, 440 // then it can't be considered dead. 441 return true; 442 } 443 444 445 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// 446 // DSE Pass 447 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// 448 449 bool DSE::runOnBasicBlock(BasicBlock &BB) { 450 bool MadeChange = false; 451 452 // Do a top-down walk on the BB. 453 for (BasicBlock::iterator BBI = BB.begin(), BBE = BB.end(); BBI != BBE; ) { 454 Instruction *Inst = BBI++; 455 456 // Handle 'free' calls specially. 457 if (CallInst *F = isFreeCall(Inst)) { 458 MadeChange |= HandleFree(F); 459 continue; 460 } 461 462 // If we find something that writes memory, get its memory dependence. 463 if (!hasMemoryWrite(Inst)) 464 continue; 465 466 MemDepResult InstDep = MD->getDependency(Inst); 467 468 // Ignore any store where we can't find a local dependence. 469 // FIXME: cross-block DSE would be fun. :) 470 if (!InstDep.isDef() && !InstDep.isClobber()) 471 continue; 472 473 // If we're storing the same value back to a pointer that we just 474 // loaded from, then the store can be removed. 475 if (StoreInst *SI = dyn_cast<StoreInst>(Inst)) { 476 if (LoadInst *DepLoad = dyn_cast<LoadInst>(InstDep.getInst())) { 477 if (SI->getPointerOperand() == DepLoad->getPointerOperand() && 478 SI->getOperand(0) == DepLoad && isRemovable(SI)) { 479 DEBUG(dbgs() << "DSE: Remove Store Of Load from same pointer:\n " 480 << "LOAD: " << *DepLoad << "\n STORE: " << *SI << '\n'); 481 482 // DeleteDeadInstruction can delete the current instruction. Save BBI 483 // in case we need it. 484 WeakVH NextInst(BBI); 485 486 DeleteDeadInstruction(SI, *MD); 487 488 if (NextInst == 0) // Next instruction deleted. 489 BBI = BB.begin(); 490 else if (BBI != BB.begin()) // Revisit this instruction if possible. 491 --BBI; 492 ++NumFastStores; 493 MadeChange = true; 494 continue; 495 } 496 } 497 } 498 499 // Figure out what location is being stored to. 500 AliasAnalysis::Location Loc = getLocForWrite(Inst, *AA); 501 502 // If we didn't get a useful location, fail. 503 if (Loc.Ptr == 0) 504 continue; 505 506 while (InstDep.isDef() || InstDep.isClobber()) { 507 // Get the memory clobbered by the instruction we depend on. MemDep will 508 // skip any instructions that 'Loc' clearly doesn't interact with. If we 509 // end up depending on a may- or must-aliased load, then we can't optimize 510 // away the store and we bail out. However, if we depend on on something 511 // that overwrites the memory location we *can* potentially optimize it. 512 // 513 // Find out what memory location the dependent instruction stores. 514 Instruction *DepWrite = InstDep.getInst(); 515 AliasAnalysis::Location DepLoc = getLocForWrite(DepWrite, *AA); 516 // If we didn't get a useful location, or if it isn't a size, bail out. 517 if (DepLoc.Ptr == 0) 518 break; 519 520 // If we find a write that is a) removable (i.e., non-volatile), b) is 521 // completely obliterated by the store to 'Loc', and c) which we know that 522 // 'Inst' doesn't load from, then we can remove it. 523 if (isRemovable(DepWrite) && 524 !isPossibleSelfRead(Inst, Loc, DepWrite, *AA)) { 525 int64_t InstWriteOffset, DepWriteOffset; 526 OverwriteResult OR = isOverwrite(Loc, DepLoc, *AA, 527 DepWriteOffset, InstWriteOffset); 528 if (OR == OverwriteComplete) { 529 DEBUG(dbgs() << "DSE: Remove Dead Store:\n DEAD: " 530 << *DepWrite << "\n KILLER: " << *Inst << '\n'); 531 532 // Delete the store and now-dead instructions that feed it. 533 DeleteDeadInstruction(DepWrite, *MD); 534 ++NumFastStores; 535 MadeChange = true; 536 537 // DeleteDeadInstruction can delete the current instruction in loop 538 // cases, reset BBI. 539 BBI = Inst; 540 if (BBI != BB.begin()) 541 --BBI; 542 break; 543 } else if (OR == OverwriteEnd && isShortenable(DepWrite)) { 544 // TODO: base this on the target vector size so that if the earlier 545 // store was too small to get vector writes anyway then its likely 546 // a good idea to shorten it 547 // Power of 2 vector writes are probably always a bad idea to optimize 548 // as any store/memset/memcpy is likely using vector instructions so 549 // shortening it to not vector size is likely to be slower 550 MemIntrinsic* DepIntrinsic = cast<MemIntrinsic>(DepWrite); 551 unsigned DepWriteAlign = DepIntrinsic->getAlignment(); 552 if (llvm::isPowerOf2_64(InstWriteOffset) || 553 ((DepWriteAlign != 0) && InstWriteOffset % DepWriteAlign == 0)) { 554 555 DEBUG(dbgs() << "DSE: Remove Dead Store:\n OW END: " 556 << *DepWrite << "\n KILLER (offset " 557 << InstWriteOffset << ", " 558 << DepLoc.Size << ")" 559 << *Inst << '\n'); 560 561 Value* DepWriteLength = DepIntrinsic->getLength(); 562 Value* TrimmedLength = ConstantInt::get(DepWriteLength->getType(), 563 InstWriteOffset - 564 DepWriteOffset); 565 DepIntrinsic->setLength(TrimmedLength); 566 MadeChange = true; 567 } 568 } 569 } 570 571 // If this is a may-aliased store that is clobbering the store value, we 572 // can keep searching past it for another must-aliased pointer that stores 573 // to the same location. For example, in: 574 // store -> P 575 // store -> Q 576 // store -> P 577 // we can remove the first store to P even though we don't know if P and Q 578 // alias. 579 if (DepWrite == &BB.front()) break; 580 581 // Can't look past this instruction if it might read 'Loc'. 582 if (AA->getModRefInfo(DepWrite, Loc) & AliasAnalysis::Ref) 583 break; 584 585 InstDep = MD->getPointerDependencyFrom(Loc, false, DepWrite, &BB); 586 } 587 } 588 589 // If this block ends in a return, unwind, or unreachable, all allocas are 590 // dead at its end, which means stores to them are also dead. 591 if (BB.getTerminator()->getNumSuccessors() == 0) 592 MadeChange |= handleEndBlock(BB); 593 594 return MadeChange; 595 } 596 597 /// Find all blocks that will unconditionally lead to the block BB and append 598 /// them to F. 599 static void FindUnconditionalPreds(SmallVectorImpl<BasicBlock *> &Blocks, 600 BasicBlock *BB, DominatorTree *DT) { 601 for (pred_iterator I = pred_begin(BB), E = pred_end(BB); I != E; ++I) { 602 BasicBlock *Pred = *I; 603 if (Pred == BB) continue; 604 TerminatorInst *PredTI = Pred->getTerminator(); 605 if (PredTI->getNumSuccessors() != 1) 606 continue; 607 608 if (DT->isReachableFromEntry(Pred)) 609 Blocks.push_back(Pred); 610 } 611 } 612 613 /// HandleFree - Handle frees of entire structures whose dependency is a store 614 /// to a field of that structure. 615 bool DSE::HandleFree(CallInst *F) { 616 bool MadeChange = false; 617 618 AliasAnalysis::Location Loc = AliasAnalysis::Location(F->getOperand(0)); 619 SmallVector<BasicBlock *, 16> Blocks; 620 Blocks.push_back(F->getParent()); 621 622 while (!Blocks.empty()) { 623 BasicBlock *BB = Blocks.pop_back_val(); 624 Instruction *InstPt = BB->getTerminator(); 625 if (BB == F->getParent()) InstPt = F; 626 627 MemDepResult Dep = MD->getPointerDependencyFrom(Loc, false, InstPt, BB); 628 while (Dep.isDef() || Dep.isClobber()) { 629 Instruction *Dependency = Dep.getInst(); 630 if (!hasMemoryWrite(Dependency) || !isRemovable(Dependency)) 631 break; 632 633 Value *DepPointer = 634 GetUnderlyingObject(getStoredPointerOperand(Dependency)); 635 636 // Check for aliasing. 637 if (!AA->isMustAlias(F->getArgOperand(0), DepPointer)) 638 break; 639 640 Instruction *Next = llvm::next(BasicBlock::iterator(Dependency)); 641 642 // DCE instructions only used to calculate that store 643 DeleteDeadInstruction(Dependency, *MD); 644 ++NumFastStores; 645 MadeChange = true; 646 647 // Inst's old Dependency is now deleted. Compute the next dependency, 648 // which may also be dead, as in 649 // s[0] = 0; 650 // s[1] = 0; // This has just been deleted. 651 // free(s); 652 Dep = MD->getPointerDependencyFrom(Loc, false, Next, BB); 653 } 654 655 if (Dep.isNonLocal()) 656 FindUnconditionalPreds(Blocks, BB, DT); 657 } 658 659 return MadeChange; 660 } 661 662 /// handleEndBlock - Remove dead stores to stack-allocated locations in the 663 /// function end block. Ex: 664 /// %A = alloca i32 665 /// ... 666 /// store i32 1, i32* %A 667 /// ret void 668 bool DSE::handleEndBlock(BasicBlock &BB) { 669 bool MadeChange = false; 670 671 // Keep track of all of the stack objects that are dead at the end of the 672 // function. 673 SmallSetVector<Value*, 16> DeadStackObjects; 674 675 // Find all of the alloca'd pointers in the entry block. 676 BasicBlock *Entry = BB.getParent()->begin(); 677 for (BasicBlock::iterator I = Entry->begin(), E = Entry->end(); I != E; ++I) { 678 if (isa<AllocaInst>(I)) 679 DeadStackObjects.insert(I); 680 681 // Okay, so these are dead heap objects, but if the pointer never escapes 682 // then it's leaked by this function anyways. 683 else if (isAllocLikeFn(I) && !PointerMayBeCaptured(I, true, true)) 684 DeadStackObjects.insert(I); 685 } 686 687 // Treat byval arguments the same, stores to them are dead at the end of the 688 // function. 689 for (Function::arg_iterator AI = BB.getParent()->arg_begin(), 690 AE = BB.getParent()->arg_end(); AI != AE; ++AI) 691 if (AI->hasByValAttr()) 692 DeadStackObjects.insert(AI); 693 694 // Scan the basic block backwards 695 for (BasicBlock::iterator BBI = BB.end(); BBI != BB.begin(); ){ 696 --BBI; 697 698 // If we find a store, check to see if it points into a dead stack value. 699 if (hasMemoryWrite(BBI) && isRemovable(BBI)) { 700 // See through pointer-to-pointer bitcasts 701 SmallVector<Value *, 4> Pointers; 702 GetUnderlyingObjects(getStoredPointerOperand(BBI), Pointers); 703 704 // Stores to stack values are valid candidates for removal. 705 bool AllDead = true; 706 for (SmallVectorImpl<Value *>::iterator I = Pointers.begin(), 707 E = Pointers.end(); I != E; ++I) 708 if (!DeadStackObjects.count(*I)) { 709 AllDead = false; 710 break; 711 } 712 713 if (AllDead) { 714 Instruction *Dead = BBI++; 715 716 DEBUG(dbgs() << "DSE: Dead Store at End of Block:\n DEAD: " 717 << *Dead << "\n Objects: "; 718 for (SmallVectorImpl<Value *>::iterator I = Pointers.begin(), 719 E = Pointers.end(); I != E; ++I) { 720 dbgs() << **I; 721 if (llvm::next(I) != E) 722 dbgs() << ", "; 723 } 724 dbgs() << '\n'); 725 726 // DCE instructions only used to calculate that store. 727 DeleteDeadInstruction(Dead, *MD, &DeadStackObjects); 728 ++NumFastStores; 729 MadeChange = true; 730 continue; 731 } 732 } 733 734 // Remove any dead non-memory-mutating instructions. 735 if (isInstructionTriviallyDead(BBI)) { 736 Instruction *Inst = BBI++; 737 DeleteDeadInstruction(Inst, *MD, &DeadStackObjects); 738 ++NumFastOther; 739 MadeChange = true; 740 continue; 741 } 742 743 if (isa<AllocaInst>(BBI)) { 744 // Remove allocas from the list of dead stack objects; there can't be 745 // any references before the definition. 746 DeadStackObjects.remove(BBI); 747 continue; 748 } 749 750 if (CallSite CS = cast<Value>(BBI)) { 751 // Remove allocation function calls from the list of dead stack objects; 752 // there can't be any references before the definition. 753 if (isAllocLikeFn(BBI)) 754 DeadStackObjects.remove(BBI); 755 756 // If this call does not access memory, it can't be loading any of our 757 // pointers. 758 if (AA->doesNotAccessMemory(CS)) 759 continue; 760 761 // If the call might load from any of our allocas, then any store above 762 // the call is live. 763 SmallVector<Value*, 8> LiveAllocas; 764 for (SmallSetVector<Value*, 16>::iterator I = DeadStackObjects.begin(), 765 E = DeadStackObjects.end(); I != E; ++I) { 766 // See if the call site touches it. 767 AliasAnalysis::ModRefResult A = 768 AA->getModRefInfo(CS, *I, getPointerSize(*I, *AA)); 769 770 if (A == AliasAnalysis::ModRef || A == AliasAnalysis::Ref) 771 LiveAllocas.push_back(*I); 772 } 773 774 for (SmallVector<Value*, 8>::iterator I = LiveAllocas.begin(), 775 E = LiveAllocas.end(); I != E; ++I) 776 DeadStackObjects.remove(*I); 777 778 // If all of the allocas were clobbered by the call then we're not going 779 // to find anything else to process. 780 if (DeadStackObjects.empty()) 781 break; 782 783 continue; 784 } 785 786 AliasAnalysis::Location LoadedLoc; 787 788 // If we encounter a use of the pointer, it is no longer considered dead 789 if (LoadInst *L = dyn_cast<LoadInst>(BBI)) { 790 if (!L->isUnordered()) // Be conservative with atomic/volatile load 791 break; 792 LoadedLoc = AA->getLocation(L); 793 } else if (VAArgInst *V = dyn_cast<VAArgInst>(BBI)) { 794 LoadedLoc = AA->getLocation(V); 795 } else if (MemTransferInst *MTI = dyn_cast<MemTransferInst>(BBI)) { 796 LoadedLoc = AA->getLocationForSource(MTI); 797 } else if (!BBI->mayReadFromMemory()) { 798 // Instruction doesn't read memory. Note that stores that weren't removed 799 // above will hit this case. 800 continue; 801 } else { 802 // Unknown inst; assume it clobbers everything. 803 break; 804 } 805 806 // Remove any allocas from the DeadPointer set that are loaded, as this 807 // makes any stores above the access live. 808 RemoveAccessedObjects(LoadedLoc, DeadStackObjects); 809 810 // If all of the allocas were clobbered by the access then we're not going 811 // to find anything else to process. 812 if (DeadStackObjects.empty()) 813 break; 814 } 815 816 return MadeChange; 817 } 818 819 /// RemoveAccessedObjects - Check to see if the specified location may alias any 820 /// of the stack objects in the DeadStackObjects set. If so, they become live 821 /// because the location is being loaded. 822 void DSE::RemoveAccessedObjects(const AliasAnalysis::Location &LoadedLoc, 823 SmallSetVector<Value*, 16> &DeadStackObjects) { 824 const Value *UnderlyingPointer = GetUnderlyingObject(LoadedLoc.Ptr); 825 826 // A constant can't be in the dead pointer set. 827 if (isa<Constant>(UnderlyingPointer)) 828 return; 829 830 // If the kill pointer can be easily reduced to an alloca, don't bother doing 831 // extraneous AA queries. 832 if (isa<AllocaInst>(UnderlyingPointer) || isa<Argument>(UnderlyingPointer)) { 833 DeadStackObjects.remove(const_cast<Value*>(UnderlyingPointer)); 834 return; 835 } 836 837 SmallVector<Value*, 16> NowLive; 838 for (SmallSetVector<Value*, 16>::iterator I = DeadStackObjects.begin(), 839 E = DeadStackObjects.end(); I != E; ++I) { 840 // See if the loaded location could alias the stack location. 841 AliasAnalysis::Location StackLoc(*I, getPointerSize(*I, *AA)); 842 if (!AA->isNoAlias(StackLoc, LoadedLoc)) 843 NowLive.push_back(*I); 844 } 845 846 for (SmallVector<Value*, 16>::iterator I = NowLive.begin(), E = NowLive.end(); 847 I != E; ++I) 848 DeadStackObjects.remove(*I); 849 } 850